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... we jetted over to get a peek at the Madonna and Child statute. This is the only piece by Michelangelo to leave Italy during his lifetime. It's was so sweet, and the rest of the cathedral that it's sits in is spectacular. Most of it has been made into a museum with plenty of beautiful works. We finished up our walk lakeside watching swans dunk their heads underwater, searching for moss and the like at the bottom. At this point we had been venturing around town ...

We lucked out !! Turned a corner and found a whole square full of cheese sellers set up for a Sunday market. They were all very generous with their products, offering unlimited tastings. Must have been about 40 stalls. We did our bit to test the local cheeses and to form valued opinions !! Even found a guy who exports his cheeses to places near to Brisbane. Bruges is a pretty town with cobbled ...

... unfortunately we again only had four hours before leaving for our four hour drive home. We were a bit under an hour late after negotiating everything that could possibly get in our way, a car accident, Parisians enjoying their stroll down the middle of the streets in order to catch the sun streaming into the narrow gap between the buildings and a garbage truck that had felt a need to empty bins at peak hour in the Paris CBD. C'est la vie ...

... to get pizza at quite possibly the only restaurant in Brugge that didn't have waffles on the menu, I went off on my own. It didn't take me long to find somewhere suitable - on a side street off the main square was a small cafe called Lizzie's Waffles. I went in, and on the advice of the owner ordered waffles with freshly whipped cream - apparently the "Belgian way" to have them. When she brought out the plate I wondered what ...

... forgot. We got to the Markt, the center of town. We were going to meet up with some Camp A girls from SHAPE. We walked around a little bit and kissed a frog statue for good luck. We went to the Choco-story museum which is a chocolate museum. It's apparently the 10 year anniversary so we got a chocolate bar when we got our ticket and there were free samples in every room of the museum. It was mostly about the history of chocolate from the Mayan days to present day. There was ...